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24 Cards in this Set
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1915 |
Wilson increases military spending |
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Feb 1915 |
Germany announces all ships will be shot |
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Oct 1915- Early 1917 |
Problems with Mexico; Carranza and Pancho Villa= PV steals US supplies and starts riots. Distracts US |
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May 1915 |
Lusitania is sunk, killing 128 Americans |
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Feb 1916 |
"Unrestricted submarine warfare"-leads to the French Sussex being shot |
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May 1916 |
Sussex Pledge-germany says they won't shoot civilian ships |
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Nov 1916 |
Wilson is re-elected |
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Feb 1917 |
Monarchy is overthrown in Russia |
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Feb 3 1917 |
The us severs ties with Germany |
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Feb 24 1917 |
Zimmerman telegram is leaked-Germany and Mexico |
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Feb 26 1917 |
Wilson asks Congress to arm merchant ships. They originally say no but he shows them the Zimmerman telegram and they say yes. |
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March 1917 |
US navy is ordered to shoot all u-boats |
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April 6th 1917 |
US declares war |
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May 1917 |
Espionage, sedition, and trading acts are passed. E-aiding the enemy becomes illegal. S-using improper language towards the govt. is illegal. T-foriegn newspapers are censored |
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Oct 1917 |
Communists take over Russia |
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Dec 1917 |
Russia withdraws from the war and the US's troops arrive in Europe |
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Jan 1918-Dec 1920 |
Spanish Influenza is brought home from soldiers |
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March 1918 |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk- Russia surrenders land to the Central Powers and forfeits the war |
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July 2 1918 |
2nd Battle of the Marne- Germany's last big push-Allies counter attack |
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Sept 1918 |
Argonne Forest- on the border of germany- last major battle-germany sort of gives up |
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Oct. 6 |
Ottoman Empire & A-H pull out of the war |
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Nov 9, 1918 |
Socialist govt. Takes over Germany |
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Nov 11 |
Germany signs armistice which stops the fighting |
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Jan-June 1919 |
Peace of Paris, Treaty of Versailles |
